The Center for Partnership Studies presents the online Participation Summit on August 20, 2020. Academy Fellow Dr. Riane Eisler is the President of this organization.
On August 20th, 2020, CPS will host The Participation Summit to make Partnerism mainstream. This two-hour event from 3pm-5pm EDT | 12pm-2pm PDT is available to the public (advance registration is required). https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/summit2020/
With the current social and economic breakdown and urgent need for fundamental systems transformation, the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS) is launching the Make Partnerism Mainstream campaign to bring to global consciousness the building blocks necessary to reinvent economics and policies so they support and reward our human capacity to be aware, creative, and to care for all people and planet.
In 1987, Riane Eisler introduced in The Chalice and The Blade the Eisler Partnership-Domination Social Scale. The ideologies of capitalism and socialism came out of the 1700’s and 1800’s when top-down rankings of domination in both homes and society were still generally viewed as normal and women were legally the property of their fathers or husbands. Consequently, the work women did, such as caring for people, starting in childhood, and keeping a clean and healthy environment, was not economically valued by either capitalism or socialism. This second-class ranking of women in the home and in society was, and still is in many cultures, enforced through fear, violence, and domination. These are hallmarks of domination-oriented systems where culture and policies do not support caregiving in homes, and this work is only paid poverty wages in the market, even though, as the Covid-19 Pandemic shows, it is essential.
Partnerism is a new social category that values linking rather than ranking (such as man over man, man over woman, man over nature, race over race, etc). In this system, parents, teachers, managers, and leaders empower rather than disempower others in hierarchies of actualization rather than hierarchies of domination. Partnerism is inclusive at its core. Partnerism includes everyone, as we endeavor to create both a caring economics that values what has previously been unseen and ignored, and social policies that invest in human capacity development starting from infancy through the entirety of life.
Partnerism includes everyone and centers on human capacity development toward caring for one another and nature.
On August 20th, 2020, CPS will host The Participation Summit to make Partnerism mainstream. This two-hour event from 3pm-5pm EDT | 12pm-2pm PDT is available to the public (advance registration is required). https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/summit2020/
CPS was founded in 1985 by Riane Eisler and David Loye. Riane Eisler is President of the Center for Partnership Studiesand author of a dozen books including The Real Wealth of Nations and most recently Nurturing Our Humanity (Oxford University Press, 2109).
